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Just started a voluntary trauma education and recovery group for survivors of ACEs First referral from a Primary Care Doctor forced me to become much more knowledgeable about Bipolar Disorder -- research has been highlighting the high incidence of emotional neglect and abuse with this diagnosis for over 10 years now. During my previous years of mental health services, no one ever raised this abuse / neglect as something meriting discussion as a treatment need.

My first client was a 72 yo man who described a life of emotional neglect (his description) from being sent to a boarding school from age 8 onwards -- from the sounds of it, though we haven't gone into it yet -- while attending board school he also suffered other types of abuse, 

Does anyone have any research articles discussing this -IN ACTUAL CONCRETE TERMS such as "in our hospital we get such patients into CBT for 3 months and that fixes it" -- I can't as yet find any articles like this -- anyone know of such ?

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See madinamerica.com

Honestly, in my NOT so humble opinion,  there's no such thing as trauma-informed psychiatric care - it's an oxymoron.

Drugging and labelling people for their trauma experiences does more harm than good in the aggregrate in the long term. So the drugs are good like opiates for physical pain - they give you some distance so you can maybe solve the problem yourself, but they aren't the answer. 

Simon, thanks for your replies 

i) most treatment studies don't like at the effects of therapies on comorbid disorders --- hence EMDR will look at anxiety/trauma, but not the comorbid psychiatric disorder -- ethical / political problems

ii) I live in New Zealand and hence don't keep up to date with English (or Canadian) newspapers so am particularly appreciative of your Q on Boarding School Syndrome -- you could well  be right, but I think, but haven't yet inquired into, experience of other forms of abuse / travel -- suspect he may have been sexually abused -- Americans would call it straight PTSD. I'm a fan of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Behavioral Psychotherapy, and will be introducing patient to that combination -- lots of studies of ACT and PTSD -- Great example of the benefits of ACEsC being such a diverse world of valuable contributors(ions).

Emotional abuse -- client suffered pneumonia age 12 -- got no visitors while in hospital, including no notifications / well wishes from parents.

Client can display positive feelings, but won't admit to many negative feelings apart from loneliness.

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